Super fun Friday!

Sam my youngest came up to school with me today.
He was bound and determined that he would sit at
the back of the class and stay silent. First of all -- he's
his mother's son, so staying silent is not one of his
best traits. But he hadn't expected the lively, funny,
joyous, and serious discussions in my class. So
he joined in immediately, and it was fun for everyone.

The last time Sam came to school with me he was 12, or
13. Even then he challenged my writing class, and wrote
a journal entry that made the other students sit up and
take notice. Today at 19 he is completely in sync
with the other students, and he had a great time.

Tonight our older guy, Christopher took us all out for
dinner at the Golden Thai restaurant downtown.
He was in Thailand at Christmas, so he told us that
the big mural at the back of the restaurant made him
sad, because Thailand was so beautiful, and it looked exactly
like that. I was glad that he thought the food was
as good as the food in Thailand, and it was a
wonderful dinner. I'd almost forgotten how funny
my gang of men are when they're all together.
Adorable.

Remember this charcoal sketch of my friend
Flora Doehler in Nova Scotia.

Here's the little painting I've been
working on from the sketch
of Flora
8 x 8 inches
acrylic on canvas

I'm working on a little painting, based on the
charcoal sketch from Skype I did a while back.
It's interesting to see how it moves the
sketch into colour. I'll take a better photo of it
tomorrow, but so far I'm happy with it.

Have a yippee-it's-the-weekend day.